In November, a US-led decision saw Kedo announcing a suspension of the heavy fuel oil shipments, prompting some humanitarian worries about the impact inside North Korea of electricity cuts.
Prior to the "Special Period" Cuba had been a heavy user of oil-based chemical fertilizers, and much of the land was heavily degraded, requiring years of careful manuring to restore fertility.
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It's pitching its electric transmission systems and its electricity-sparing motors to the dirtiest industries--utilities, mining, oil and gas, and heavy manufacturing--as a way of becoming a little bit cleaner and more efficient.
Heat the olive oil in a large heavy-bottomed skillet over high heat.
Pour oil into a large, heavy-bottomed pot to a depth of 3 inches.
The solar steam is being injected into wells to make it easier to extract heavy crude from a 120-year-old oil field in the Central Valley town of Coalinga.
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In a large, heavy skillet, warm the oil over medium-high heat.
Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.
It avoided substituting Venezuelan heavy-tar oil used in Gulf Coast refineries with a similar product from near-by Canadian friends.
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Alberta, Canada is site of the world's largest extraction operations from oil sands, heavy earth laden with bitumen, a hydrocarbon-rich mineral.
For those he used lead white, a traditional oil pigment he reckoned would show up in an x-ray due to the heavy metal content.
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The line is critical to ensure a continued, smooth ramp-up in oil sands production, because producers need to send the heavy bitumen extracted from the sands to refineries able to handle that kind of crude.
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Just days earlier the president had taken a similar decision in relation to the cement industry: three foreign transnationals Mexico's Cemex, France's Lafarge, and Holcim of Switzerland which supply most of the local market, are being offered a joint-venture scheme like the one applied last year to the oil companies in the Orinoco heavy-oil belt.
There's also a call for the G20 this autumn to co-ordinate action in a bid to bring down inflationary pressures, which looks like a heavy hint that the oil price and speculation in other commodities should be constrained.
The Saudis are testing similar systems in heavy oilfields where Al-Naimi says they could boost the potential oil to be squeezed from a field sixfold to 40%.
Meanwhile, the implementation of a 1994 agreement that ended North Korea's plutonium production in return for two new western-designed nuclear reactors and interim supplies of heavy fuel oil is badly behind schedule, largely as a result of North Korea's obstructive behaviour: the two new reactors were meant to start producing electricity by 2003, but the first concrete will not be poured before the end of next year.
China Integrated Energy, Inc. (CBEH) : A non-state-owned company, China Integrated has three main businesses: the wholesale distribution of finished oil and heavy oil products, the production and sale of biodiesel, and the operation of retail gas stations.
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